Due to popular demand it has been announced today that two extra dates in Dublin and London will be added to the Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour 2010. The tour will now kick off a day earlier on 22 January at Dublin Academy and making sure the tour ends with an extra bang there is now an additional London date at The Roundhouse on 6 February. Tickets for the tour are on sale now. Back for its fifth year, the Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour 2010 will be bringing you some of the hottest young bands in rock. All Time Low, The Blackout, Young Guns and My Passion will be hitting 11 cities across the UK and Ireland in January 2010, and now with multiple dates in Dublin and London fans have no excuse to miss out!

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The mighty Feeder will be headlining the main stage at this year’s Hevy Music Festival, topping an awesome line-up also featuring Ash, Gary Numan, Hundred Reasons, The Blackout (replacing Kids In Glass Houses), Attack! Attack!, Sonic Boom Six and In Case Of Fire.

Cancer Bats headline the second stage, following We Are The Ocean, The Ghost Of A Thousand (replacing Flood Of Red), The Xcerts, Heartbreak, SHARKS, Farewell City, Mexico Fallz and After The Ordeal.

Finally, LightsGoBlue headline our local talent showcase on the Hevy Music Festival’s third stage, following More Than Normal, Amber Room, One Day Elliott, Elephants, The Startover, Kingskin, and Eleven Eleven.

The event, in its first year is run by two 22year olds, and is a mammoth acheivement with the acts involved - and part of the regeneration of Folkestone. This at a time when money is so tight in the Credit Crunch, and where the Music industry particulary is in the press with question marks over its future due to illegal downloads etc, puts this as a very topical story in many lights.

For full details please visit www.hevy.co.uk

‘Now broadcasting on RTV Channel, this is Hollywood. Go:Audio’s music style has been described as an emo rock-pop mix, with a hint of synth. Go Audio is:

James Matthews - Singer
Josh Wilkinson - Keyboardist+Backing Vocals
Zack Wilkinson - Guitarist
Andy Booth - Drummer

They rose to fame by building an initial fan base using their myspace page and touring small venues round the UK, their first single/EP Woodchuck was released in March 2008 (though scheduled for February), followed by Made-up Stories, and She Left Me in August, their first album was originally to be released at the end of January 2009, taking the name of their second single Made-up Stories. It has been delayed to an undisclosed time later in 2009, as the band wished to record a few more songs to add to the album. A new single is expected to be released before the album itself. The original 10-track album has been leaked onto a few torrent sites such as Isohunt and Mininova. The have toured with and supported many big bands such as: Sherwood, Say Anything, Hellogoodbye, The Blackout, Bowling for Soup, My American Heart, Scouting for Girls and Kids In Glass Houses. Due to an injury to his knee, guitarist Zack had to pull out from the remainder of The Blackout’s tour, and could not play for the remainder of Scouting For Girl’s tour. He was also unable to play their first headline show at the Bar Academy, Islington, with Casiokid and Lights Action supporting. He also pulled out of the first headline tour in April 2008. Since then, the band have had another headline tour in November 2008 and another will commence in April 2009 with support from Saving Aimee and Eighth Wave. The band’s debut album is set for release in 2009 including all the tracks which were on the first version of the album that was unreleased and some new songs, two of which are ‘This Isn’t Hollywood’ and the new single ‘Drive to the City’. ‘Drive To The City’ is set for release in the UK on April 20th.

From 12 Jun 2024 - 14 Jun 2024 The UK’s biggest, loudest, distortion-fuelled rock and metal festival returns to Donington Park for three more days of hard and heavy axe-wielding action. With a taste for the biggest and most influential names in the heavy rock scene, Download Festival has attracted sets from KISS, Metallica, Guns ‘N Roses, Iron Maiden and The Prodigy in recent years and fans can expect more big names this time around. The site underwent a revamp last year and it now houses two outdoor stages and a tent as well as an extreme sports bar, five-a-side football pitch, market, merchandise stands and chill-out area Kidney Woods. Download 2009 will offer bespoke camping over the weekend. AGreenerFestival say this about the festival: Download won the ‘most improved’ festival in the 2007 Greener Festival Awards and organisers Live Nation built on this in 2008 with travel planning and carbon offsetting offered to the audience. A new artist briefing booklet that explained the festival’s environmental work was given to performers who were encouraged to improve their own carbon footprint with handy hints and tips. The deposit system for recycling introduced in 2007 was continued and audience recycling in the campsite was encouraged and further promoted.

releases, live reports and gossip from around the globe.
Friday, June 12, 2024
2nd Stage
Motley Crue, Opeth, Lacuna Coil, Dir En Grey, Parkway Drive

Main Stage - Download
Faith No More, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Killswitch Engage, Billy Talent, Staind, The Blackout,

Tuborg Stage
Meshuggah, Duff McKagen’s Loaded, Backyard Babies, Middle Class Rut, Sleepercurve,

Saturday, June 13, 2024
2nd Stage
The Prodigy, Chris Cornell, You Me At Six, The Answer, Static-X, Fightstar, In Case Of Fire, Superstar

Main Stage - Download
Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Pendulum, Dragonforce, Down, Devildriver, Five Finger Death Punch

Tuborg Stage
Anvil, Architects, Lawnmower Deth, Poison

Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
None The Less

Sunday, June 14, 2024
2nd Stage
Trivium, Papa Roach, Buckcherry, Clutch, Shinedown, Karma To Burn, Sevendust

Main Stage - Download
Def Leppard, Whitesnake, ZZ Top, Dream Theater, Journey, Black Stone Cherry

Tuborg Stage
Go Audio, Therapy, Pulled Apart By Horses

Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
Twin Atlantic

The Blackout will release their second single, Children Of The Night off forthcoming album, The Best In Town (produced by Jason Perry) on 18th May 2009. The Video for Children Of The Night forms a two part visual treat, with director Luga Podesta and producer Brandon Bonfiglio at the helm- those responsible for awards wining videos from Panic At The Disco, Paramore, Fall Out Boy and more. The Children Of The Night video will get its exclusive first play on MTV.co.uk on 15th April and the song will air on Mondays Radio 1 Rock Show. Children Of The Night will be available on 3 different formats:
Digital Download w/ video bundle
7′ with B side ‘Pastor of Muppets’
CD single with B side cover of ‘I Kissed A Girl And I Liked It’

The band will be tearing up stages from next week now bass player Rhys Lewis has thankfully recovered from his recent accident which left him hospitalised in LA for over a week.

Live dates below:

Fri 17 April London Brixton Academy GIAN London
Sun 19 April Manchester Academy GIAN Manchester

Headline tour:

Sat-May-16 Dublin IRE Academy 0818 719 300
Sun-May-17 Cardiff Solus 029 2078 1458
Mon-May-18 Yeovil Westland Leisure Complex 0871 2200 260
Wed-May-20 Manchester Academy 2 0161 832 1111
Thu-May-21 Norwich Waterfront 01603 508 050
Fri-May-22 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall - 14+ 0870 320 7000
Sun-May-24 Leeds Slam Dunk Festival 0113 245 4650
Mon-May-25 Glasgow QMU 08444 999 990
Wed-May-27 Newcastle University 0191 263 5000
Thu-May-28 Liverpool Academy 0844 477 2000
Fri-May-29 London Forum 0844 847 2405

Tickets:Dublin € 17.50/UK regional dates: £12.50/ London: £14

Friday 12th June Download. Alongside Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Limp Bizkit, koЯn and more!

‘Children Of The Night’ will be released 18th May followed by the album The Best In Town on 25th May.

www.myspace.com/theblackout

You Me At Six is set to headline this year’s Slam Dunk Festival at Leeds University on Bank Holiday Sunday, May 24. After their electrifying set in 2008 and their rise as pop-rock favourites in the UK, the Surrey quintet were asked to return and headline the one-day festival by organizers.

While American bands have dominated the festival in past years, UK bands are now prevailing with The Blackout, In Case of Fire, We Are The Ocean and The Ghost Of A Thousand performing, to name a few. Other acts confirmed on the bill include Cobra Starship, We The Kings, The King Blues, Anti Flag, Sing It Loud, Hexes and Hundred Reasons.

In its 4th year, Slam Dunk Festival will play host to 40 bands across 6 stages, running from 3pm until 11pm. There will also be an aftershow running until 3am.

About You and me at six.
You Me At Six are a 5-piece rock/ pop/punk band from Weybridge, Surrey who formed in 2005. The five piece played locally until early 2007 when spring support slots with Saosin at Leeds Cockpit (03.05.07) and later Paramore at the Colchester Arts Centre (10.06.07) saw them attract media attention from the likes of Kerrang, Musicscoop and NME. In July 2007 they supported Tonight Is Goodbye on their summer tour along with Death Can Dance and then later that month were featured in Kerrang magazine in their new music section. The group were then recruited as support for firstly Fightstar on their September tour and then Elliot Minor in October 2007. Following their return from those tours they headlined a special Halloween show at the Kingston Peel with support from notable local acts such as Consort With Romeo and We Have A Getaway. In October of 2007 they released their debut single “Save It For The Bedroom” on Slam Dunk Records and then went on their first headline tour with support from Flood Of Red playing six dates across the country. In December 2007 the band were announced as support for The Audition’s February 2008 UK tour. You Me At Six were also nominated for Best British Newcomer at the Kerrang! Awards 2007, the category eventually went to Gallows, and headlined the London KOKO whilst playing Klub Kerrang. On December 10th 2007 the band added the B-side to their single “Save It For The Bedroom”, “You’ve Made Your Bed” onto their official myspace.

www.youmeatsix.info

GO:AUDIO release their new single ‘Drive to the City’ on 20 April through Rubix Records - the third song to be taken from their debut album, ‘Made Up Stories’, released on 11 May.

Shortly after releasing their first singles, ‘She Left Me’ and ‘Made Up Stories’ on Epic Records in the summer of 2008, Go:Audio parted company with the label to release their material independently.

Since then, they have been nominated for Best Newcomers at the Kerrang! Awards 2008 and written yet more material for their Andy Green (Keane) produced debut album. They’ve also sold an unprecedented number of tickets for their live dates, making them arguably the biggest unsigned act in the country.

Go:Audio have built up an enviable online following by engaging their MySpace community in crucial decisions, such as polls to determine the selection of their b-sides and artwork, and have now built up an overwhelming base of people power.

‘Drive To The City’ is a typically anthemic single from the band, mixing up disco synths with a do-or-die pop-rock chorus. Produced by the band’s keyboardist Josh Wilkinson, it’s destined to be sung along to with dizzy abandon when the band head out on the road.

1 April Nottingham Rescue Rooms (sold out)
2 April Cambridge Junction
3 April Oxford Academy (sold out)
4 April Manchester Academy 2 (sold out)
6 April Glasgow, QMU
7 April Newcastle Academy
8 April Birmingham Academy
9 April London Electric Ballroom
11 April Dublin Academy
12 April Belfast Limelight

www.myspace.com/goaudioband

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